2 for the Gold Olympics challenge: Archery popularity rising due to London and Hunger Games movie

Cayden McFarland

12:07 PM, Jul 29, 2016

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Historically, archery was used for hunting and combat, but now it's a recreational sport, and one of the 32 Olympic events.

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Cayden gets help from instructor Dale Cooley with the Tulsa Archery Association.

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Cayden takes aim at the camera during archery practice at the Tulsa Archery Association

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Cayden takes aim at his target at the Tulsa Archery Association

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Cayden takes aim at an outside target

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Cayden McFarland gets help from instructor Dale Cooley of the Tulsa Archery Association.

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Cayden McFarland sets his aim on the target at the Tulsa Archery Association.

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Editor's Note: This story was originally published on Aug. 8, 2012.

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TULSA - Historically, archery was used for hunting and combat, but now it's a recreational sport, and one of the 32 Olympic events.

In the London Games, there were four archery events; Men's Individual, Women's Individual, Men's Team, Women's Team.

The competition has ended, but for some archery has become "the new curling" as one NBC executive called it last week. The cable ratings were huge and some attribute the sport's rise in popularity to the recent The Hunger Games movie.